In December 2015, Tim became the first British astronaut to visit the International Space Station and conduct a spacewalk during his six month mission. All books come with a lifetime guarantee No Coa's issued unless the book originally came with one then it will be included with the book. He is the first British ESA astronaut, the second astronaut to bear a British flag patch (the first was Helen Sharman, who visited Mir as part of Project Juno in 1991), the sixth person born in the United Kingdom to go on board the International Space Station (the first was NASA astronaut Michael Foale in 2003) and the seventh UK-born person in space. Told through the fascinating ‘diary’ of the Universe itself, along with astronaut Tim Peake and a host of expert space STEM characters, this book takes children on a mind-blowing adventure to understand some of the REALLY BIG QUESTIONS about how our incredible universe came to be. In Space: The Human Story, astronaut Tim Peake traces the lives of these remarkable men and women who have forged the way, from Yuri Gagarin to Neil Armstrong, from Valentina Tereshkova to Peggy Whitson.

This cookie is installed by Google Universal Analytics to restrain request rate and thus limit the collection of data on high traffic sites. The book also examines the surprising, shocking and often poignant stories of astronauts back on Earth, whose lives are forever changed as they readjust to terra firma. The fascinating science behind some of these questions is explaining by STEM characters who occupy key space jobs – the space geologist, the cosmologist, the quantum physicist, the astronomer, and of course, the astronaut – who distil complex subjects with humour and playfulness, appealing to a kids hungry to know more about space, the universe and our place in it.This is for my (just turned) ten year old grandson whose appetite for knowledge of just about everything is insatiable. Tim was selected as an ESA astronaut in May 2009 and after arduous training Tim was assigned to a mission to the International Space Station in May 2013.

DISCOVER THE UNIVERSE'S SECRETS WITH THIS FASCINATING FACT-FILLED BOOK FROM REAL-LIFE ASTRONAUT TIM PEAKE Are you bursting to know the answers to REALLY BIG questions?Major Timothy Nigel "Tim" Peake CMG (born 7 April 1972) is a British Army Air Corps officer, European Space Agency astronaut and a former International Space Station (ISS) crew member. The tk_or is a referral cookie set by the JetPack plugin on sites using WooCommerce, which analyzes referrer behaviour for Jetpack. In the form of the diary of the universe, and in the starry company of astronaut Tim Peake, the book helps us understand those really big ideas. Full of exclusive new stories, and astonishing detail only an astronaut would know, the book conveys what space exploration is really like: the wondrous view of Earth, the surreal weightlessness, the extraordinary danger, the surprising humdrum, the unexpected humour, the newfound perspective, the years of training, the psychological pressures, the gruelling physical toll, the thrill of launch and the trepidation of re-entry.